The life of Irish-born multihyphenate Oscar Wilde, as consequential as it was brief, is the subject of Micheál Mac Liammóir’s “The Importance of Being Oscar,” now earning a judicious, fast-paced and inventive production at Thinking Cap Theatre. Staging the play in the company’s capacious new home in Dania Beach, director Nicole Stodard honors Mac Liammóir’s intention as a primer on his subject—a sort of Wilde 101, interspersing biographical details with excerpts from Wilde’s plays, poems, letters and lone novel—while updating the now 50-year-old work with modern flourishes and multimedia dazzle.
Source: An Oscar Winner: Thinking Cap Theatre’s Stylish Exploration of Oscar Wilde’s Life & Times